Our Care

Our kids deserve the best. It’s why we’re committed to providing the most advanced pediatric medicine possible with a holistic approach to care. The stories collected here demonstrate some of the incredible ways we were able to do that over the past year.

Teamwork equals excellence in pediatric extracorporeal resuscitation

During last year’s COVID-19 Omicron surge, a team of Comer Children’s clinicians utilized their extensive cardiac expertise to plan for and save a teen who suffered cardiac arrest while he was being intubated.

Six-year-old shot in the heart defies survival odds

When a gravely injured 6-year-old boy was brought into the Comer Children’s Emergency Department, a highly-trained, specialized trauma team assembled within minutes. Learn how they were able to save the young boy’s life despite a bullet lodged in his heart.

Advancing robotic urologic surgery in even the youngest patients

A dozen years ago, Mohan S. Gundeti, MD, was one of the few pediatric urological surgeons in the country to attempt robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery in an infant. Today, he continues to pioneer the technique of using adult-sized equipment on babies.

A surprising pediatric complication of Long COVID-19: Acute liver failure

When 2-year-old Esmeralda Perez was transferred to Comer Children’s with fever, abdominal pain and jaundice, she quickly developed acute liver failure. After a second biopsy revealed massive necrosis, Esmeralda was the recipient of a split-liver transplant, one of only 200 such transplants done in the US each year.

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